ARTIST BIO

Memphis songwriter fosterfalls (they/them) crafts ethereal folk music inspired by themes of the unconscious, grounded in natural metaphor, and interwoven with lilting open tuned guitar lines. Their live performances invite the audience through a mystic forest of swelling harmonies and looper arrangements on a quest of shared introspection.
Foster is a current artist in residence at Crosstown Arts and has appeared on Memphis area stages including Raised by Sound Festival, Memphis Mushroom Festival and Goner’s Record Store Day gazebo. They have been featured in We Are Memphis Music and The Daily Memphian, and on local stations WYXR, Radio Memphis, and WREG. Their sophomore single “Ask the Cards” was selected as October 2023’s best new track by Out the Box magazine and recommended in Focus magazine’s “Queer Up Your Playlist.” Last fall Foster released their debut EP Somniscience to streaming and to cassette through Big Tobacco Records, supported by a regional tour. In the coming months they look forward to playing Memphis Concréte Festival and recording new work.

SOMNISCIENCE EP BIO

Somniscience is recurring dreamfolk songwriter fosterfalls’ debut EP, recorded by Foster in their home studio in Memphis with contributions from Memphis Symphony Orchestra flutist Delara Hashemi. Somniscience is an atmospheric folk journey through a mythic dream driven by ethereal vocals, nylon string guitar and an undercurrent of cathartic energy.
From roots somn- “sleep” and -science “knowledge,” the concept project explores themes of dreams and self-knowing. In four songs, Somniscience leads you on an interior hero’s journey. The title track introduces you as the hero called in dreams to a mysterious path. In ‘The Interpreter” you’ll relive an Arthurian dream of Foster’s in which they sword fight their inner child and cling to the fateful weapon. Sword in hand, you’ll trek through “In A Vale”s meditative looping landscapes and reflect on your passage in stripped down “Hourglass.” Rich with nature and fantasy imagery woven into haunting folk melodies and punctuated by swirling flutes and crunchy synths, Somniscience sets the scene for an internal quest of your own creation, released October 18th 2024 and with Big Tobacco’s 10th tape batch.

SOMNISCIENCE TOUR DATES
10.10.24 . Memphis Listening Lab . Memphis TN
10.18.24 . H&S Printing Company . Memphis TN
10.25.24 …… The Pilot Light …… Knoxville TN
11.01.24 …… House Show …… Chattanooga TN
11.08.24 ……... Café Mustache ……… Chicago IL
11.16.24 . Greenwood Social Hall . Kansas City MO
11.23.24 …… Betty’s Bar&Grill ……. Nashville TN